THE DAILY BLADE: Obama School Fail
One of the many schools across the U.S. named after President Barack Hussein Obama (fourth item) has lived up to its namesake: It has crashed and burned. NJ fiscal monitor Bruce Rodman, ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1st, Asbury Park (NJ) Press reports:
Students next year will go to the district's two other more modern elementary schools -- Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side. …
Officially renamed early in 2010 after the president, the building was known as the Bangs Avenue School since it was built a century ago. The state School Development Authority had planned to build a new school to replace the historic building, but has pulled back and Lowe said recently the state would not build a new school.
The district has had a significant decline in enrollment, Rodman said in a letter explaining his decision.
The paper does not say whether this significant decline was due to illegal immigrants leaving the state in search of work elsewhere in the U.S., but it’s the likely reason.
Same Thing, Only Different: Part III
According to a study published in Arab Media and Society by William Youmans and Katie Brown, who are both Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Americans can’t tell the difference between CNN International and Al Jazeera English.
[Hat Tip: Mediaite]
The Stiletto Scoops Best Of The Web Today (Again)
If, as British cleric and aphorist Charles Caleb Colton has it, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” then what might resemblance perceived in the eye of the beholder be? With rare exceptions, in politics, sycophancy.
- Obama Is Just About Every U.S. President All Rolled Into One!, The Stiletto Blog, February 16, 2009
The New York Times's idea of a conservative is a guy who loves to puff Barack Obama. ... Obama is the dynamic young John F. Kennedy and the wise old Dwight Eisenhower all rolled into one [according to David Brooks' column].
- Is Obama Like Ike?, OpinionJournal, March 15, 2011
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